From: Johannes Zellner (johannes@zellner.org)
Date: Fri 20 Oct 2000 - 18:48:25 IST
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:46:26PM +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> > I've to increase the following definition from
> > src/driver.h
> >
> > #define MAX_REGS 5000
> >
> > to something like at least 7000 to make svgalib
> > working here. This is no problem, as I compile
> > svgalib myself anyway. But the debian svgalib
> > and probably also precompiled binaries from
> > other distributions comes with the default
> > `MAX_REGS 5000' and therefore is unusable here.
> >
> > I'd suggest to increase this number by default
> > to, say something like 8000 to cover more chipsets
> > by default.
> > Would there be any drawbacks in doing this ?
>
> What cards need more than 5000 bytes?
well: ist this size in `bytes' ? -- who cares about
5000 vs. 8000 bytes nowadays anyway.
SuperProbe:
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: ATI 264LT Pro (3D Rage LT Pro) (Port Probed)
Memory: 4096 Kbytes
RAMDAC: ATI Mach64 integrated 15/16/24/32-bit DAC w/clock
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
(programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables)
Attached graphics coprocessor:
Chipset: ATI Mach64
Memory: 4096 Kbytes
But I got libvga only running with
chipset VESA
colortext
VesaText
--
Johannes
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